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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EUGENE NAPOLEON OARPENTIER, OF PARIS, FRANCE.

LOOKING-GLASS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Batent No. 324,227, dated August 11, 1885.

Application filed July 19, 1863. (No model.) Patented in France April 1, 1882, No. 148,216, and in Belgium April 3, 1889., No. 57,524.

- To all whom/ it may concern:

Be it known that I, EUGENE NAPOLEON VCARPENTIER, a citizen of the Republic'of France, and residing in Paris, France, have invented Improvements in Folding Mirrors,

Fig. 3 is a similar View showing the mirror.

folded up. Fig. 4 is a face view of the mirror when folded, and Fig. 5 is a sectional view of the hinge of the two sections.

A is the central glass, which may be of the thick beveled pattern shown, and surrounded by an ornamental metallic frame, a, and at the upper end is hinged a handlap, by which the mirror may be suspended from suitable hooks or nails, as shown in Fig. 1. B B are the two folding glasses, which are also mounted in suitable metallic frames, 1) b, and are hinged to the central mirror by means of collars d d on the upright rods m m, which also pass through the collars cc at the sides of the central mirror.

Between the pairs of collars are mounted on the rods m m ornamental tubes or ferrules t, and the collars and ferrules are secured by lower edges of the two side mirrors are secured feet 6 e, which, together with the rods m in, afford the necessary support for the entire mirror when the latter is to be placed upon any article of furniture. The glasses are lined at the back with any suitable ornamental fabric or material-such, for instance, as Velvet, embroidery, or ornamental woods, as shown in Fig. 4. The nuts f, on the upper ends of the rods mm, are provided with openings for the reception of the bent ends of rods h, which support suitable candle-holders, E, and the rods m m are at their lower ends also provided with projections g, with openings for the reception of similar candle-holders E. When the mirror is folded up, it is retained in the closed position by means of a springcatch, k, Figs. 3 and 4.

The mirror described may be hung, as I have said, on hooks in the wall, or may be placed on the horizontal surface of a piece of furniture or mounted on a special stand or support.

I am aware that it is not new to make a folding mirror. Such a one is shown, for instance, in Patent-No. 92,966, of July 27, 1869, and I therefore do not claim anything therein shown.

I claim as myinvention- 1. The combination of the three-part folding 

